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Ethology and Ecology of the Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus Patas) at Mt African Primates 9:35-44 (2014)/ 35 Ethology and Ecology of the Patas Monkey (Erythrocebus patas) at Mt. Assirik, Senegal Clifford J. Henty1 and William C. McGrew1,2 1Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK 2Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, England, UK Abstract: We report ecological and ethological data collected opportunistically and intermittently on unhabituated patas monkeys at Mt. Assirik, Senegal, over 44 months. Although unsystematic and preliminary, these data represent the most ever presented on far western populations of the West African subspecies (Erythrocebus patas patas). Patas monkeys at Assirik live in a largely natural mosaic ecosystem of grassland, open woodland and gallery (riverine) forest with a full range of mammalian predators and competitors but without domestic plants and animals. All sociecological variables measured fall within the range of patas monkeys studied elsewhere in East and Central Africa, but apparent nuanced variation could not be tested, given the lack of close-range, focal-sampled data. This awaits further study. Résumé: Des données écologiques et comportementales ont été récoltées de façon opportuniste et discontinue durant 44 mois sur les patas sauvages à Mont Assirik, Sénégal. Malgré leur nature préliminaire et non- systématique, ces données sont actuellement les plus nombreuses sur la sous-espèce d’Afrique occidentale (Erythrocebus patas patas). Les patas de Mont Assirik vivent au sein d’un écosystème constitué d’une mosaïque de savanes herbeuses et boisées avec des forêts galeries, en présence de nombreuses espèces de mammifères prédateurs et compétiteurs, mais en l’absence de toute plante ou animal domestique. Nos résultats montrent que les patas de Mont Assirik ressemblent à ceux d’Afrique de l’est et d’Afrique centrale de façon générale, mais des analyses approfondies des variables socio-écologiques requièrent des données systématiques sur des individus habitués à la présence des observateurs. Key words: Patas monkey, Erythrocebus patas, behaviour, habitat, West African primates INTRODUCTION The main aims of the study were to: (a) compare 2009; Burnham & Riordan 2012) and Kala Maloue the main features of the socioecology of patas in Cameroon (Ohsawa et al. 1993; Nakagawa 1999, monkeys (Erythrocebus patas) in Senegal to those 2000, 2003; Ohsawa 2003), have lasted for decades noted elsewhere in Africa, and (b) investigate and systematically have compared patas with the general ecology of patas in a mosiac of mixed sympatric guenons. We report data on the largely woodland and grassland in far western Africa. neglected, far West African sub-species of patas Most recent studies have been done in East monkey (E. p. patas), found from Senegal to Chad Africa on E. p. pyrrhonotus or in Central Africa on E. (Isbell 2013). p. patas. Both of these long-term studies, at Laikipia The first systematic study of patas was done on in Kenya (Chism & Rowell 1986, 1988; Enstam grassland savannas in Uganda, toward the eastern & Isbell 2002, 2004; Isbell & Chism 2007; Pruetz end of the species’ range (Hall 1965). Struhsaker Correspondence to: William C. McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, Fitzwil- liam St., Cambridge CB2 1QH, United Kingdom; E-mail: [email protected]. 36 / Henty and McGrew and Gartlan (1970), Gartlan and Gartlan (1973) ridges and slopes support further deciduous open and Gartlan (1975) later studied a central African woodland. Thus, four distinct habitats – forest, population of patas in the more arid Sahelian savannas woodland, plateau, and grassland – cover most of Cameroon. All of their observations seem to have of the study area. Within the study area, only one been done at waterholes in the dry season. The stream has permanently flowing water. By the end of species’ range extends westward from Cameroon for the dry season (March-May), the only other surface another 3000 km, to the Atlantic Ocean. In pelage, water comprises small pools in streambeds at about western populations are subspecifically different, eight sites in steep-sided valleys. lacking the contrasting pattern of facial hair, but they are similar in morphology and dimensions to Fauna the eastern forms (Isbell 2013). The only previous reports on the socioecology Five potential mammalian predators on patas of far western patas are brief or lack detail. Galat- occurred at Assirik: lion (Panthera leo), leopard Luong et al. (1994, 1996) studied patas in coastal (Panthera pardus), spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), Senegal, in the Saloum Delta National Park, on African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), and side-striped the northwestern side of the country. Chism and jackal (Canis adustus). All were encountered Rowell (1988) studied patas for 4 weeks at Tenzugu occasionally year-round, although most were in Ghana, a depauperate, highly human-modified nocturnal (McGrew et al. 2014). Large predatory site where the patas raided crops daily. Pruetz reptiles such as Nile monitor lizard (Varanus and Marshack (2009) reported chimpanzees (Pan niloticus) and Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) troglodytes verus) preying on patas in southeastern also occurred in the study area (McGrew 2014). Senegal, at Fongoli. Assirik had no domesticated animals or plants, thus no crop-raiding nor provisioning. There was little sign of anthropogenic modification of the STUDY AREA AND METHODS habitat, apart from the annual burning mentioned above: no water tanks, fence lines, charcoal-making, From February 1976 to December 1979, the or forest clearance. The fauna and flora in 1976-79 Stirling African Primate Project (SAPP) maintained was typical of the Guinea-Soudanian woodland a small field camp (12° 53’ N, 12° 46’ W) by one of of the Sahel, including the presence of elephants the main watercourses draining from Mont Assirik (Loxodonta africana). Some small-scale illegal (elevation: 311 m). Two to four observers at a time hunting occurred, but there was no evidence of concentrated on studying the chimpanzee, and human killing of patas. in 1977, fulltime studies began on both Guinea baboons, Papio papio (Sharman 1981) and Climate and Seasonality green monkeys, Chlorocebus sabaeus (previously Cercopithecus aethiops; Harrison 1983a, 1983b). Four years (1976-79) of records of temperature, rainfall, relative humidity, and cloud cover show that Vegetation Assirik undergoes a pronounced dry season with highest temperatures towards its end in April and McGrew et al. (1981) presented quantitative data May (McGrew et al. 1981). Annual rainfall varied on climate and vegetation at Assirik. The slopes of from 824 -1224 mm (median = 885 mm), with the low, flat-topped hill are covered in deciduous much rain from June to October and almost no rain woodland and bamboo (Oxytenanthra sp.) and between November and May. By mid-November, merge into basins dominated by tall elephant grass grasses were dead and highly inflammable; bushfires (Andropogen sp.) with occasional, isolated trees. swept through plateaux and basin grasslands. Only These basins are separated by a series of flat laterite the gallery forest escaped severe fires and even there plateaux (‘bowes’), covered mainly by Danthiopsis leaf litter often burned. The blackened, leafless and sp. grass. Some areas of plateaux have scattered arid appearance of most of the Assirik region during Combretum bushes, Acacia scrub, or coarser the dry season belies the fact that many trees and vegetation in poorly-drained places. Seasonal shrubs then come into flower, such as Pterocarpus streams cut through the plateaux in rocky gorges erinaceus, Bombax costatum and Combretum sp., and provide the only suitable sites for the small whilst others (e.g., Adansonia digitata) produce ripe strips of gallery forest with evergreen trees. Other fruits at this season. Patas Monkeys at Mt. Assirik, Senegal / 37 Data Collection CH spent 5 November – 2 December, 1979, at Assirik. He employed a mixed strategy of extensive All SAPP researchers occasionally encountered survey walks and long-range scanning with patas and took notes on group size, habitat, and binoculars of plateaux. He made spot-checks from general behaviour. As these observers concentrated a vehicle at places where patas had been seen before on the other three species of diurnal primates, they and that were visible from the 2.8 km of motorable spent most of their time in gallery forest or woodland track. Besides intensive observations in the same and rarely saw patas in these biomes. Encounters areas close to camp, CH twice visited eight of the usually happened as researchers crossed plateaux nine major outlying plateaux within the usual SAPP en route to other areas or when taking the hourly survey region. meteorological readings on the plateau at camp. Most of the observations beyond brief glimpses were of monkeys as they drank, rested, moved, or RESULTS foraged across extensive open spaces. The terrestrial observer usually was several hundred metres distant, Social Interaction so even thin vegetation cover was a visual hindrance. During the middle of the day, heat shimmer greatly Patas showed remarkably little physical or vocal reduced the effectiveness of binoculars. It was interaction that could be detected by observers rarely possible to record continuous sequences of from a distance of 50 m or more. Monkeys sat behaviour, to make regular time samples of activity, near or moved past others in a relaxed way, with or to ascertain the exact composition of a group by no obvious display signals or signs of avoidance. age and sex. Here, we based analyses on putative Those resting in the same tree were often several breeding groups in which infants were seen, or on metres apart. In 17 encounters totalling 481 min of an adult male with females, or on groups larger than relatively undisturbed observations, mainly around six, i.e., greater than the largest all-male group ever a waterhole, social grooming occurred only three seen at Assirik. times. We opportunistically collected patas faecal We saw 15 instances of chasing play. Nine times, samples and examined them by sluicing and sieving juveniles or infants usually took part, but once an (McGrew et al.
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